Re: Off Season Topic: Hockey Terminology
ring it around the glass
dump and chase
got the gate
Still a few more out there. Also adding:
soft goal
ice is tilted
perimeter
support the puck
and one more that starts with nut!
Hockey Terminology
all alone
angles
angling
apple (assist)
backcheck
back door
backpressure
bad feet/boots (slow)
bad mitts (poor stickhander)
bar down
barn
Bauer
beast
beater
beaut/beauty
bender
bertuzzi (sucker punch)
biscuit in the basket
blind pass
blowing a tire
blue paint
boards (around the boards)
bobbled
body
box
breezers
bubble (mask)
bucket
butt end
butterfly
canoe tipper
cementhead
change on the fly
cherry pick
chicklets
chime the iron
chippy
chip out
chirp
clang
clapper
clogging up the middle
coast-to-coast
conky
Cooperalls
crash the net
crease (in the)
crossbar
cross-check(ing)
cross-grinding
cycling
dances (around)
dangle
Dangle Snip-n-Celly (song)
dasher
D-corps
deke
delayed offsides
delayed penalty
dent the twine
deodorizer
dig
dime (10 minute misconduct)
dipsy do
dishes it off
dirty areas
dive
Donnybrook
down low
DQ
drop the gloves
draw
drilled
drop pass
dump and chase
dump in
duster
EAG
ejected
embellishment
empty netter
end-to-end rush
enforcer
euro (skiiled and soft)
face off
“feels shame”
fish stick
five hole
Flex
flow
forecheck
freeze
gap control
garbage goal
get it deep
gongshow
good hands
good look
good/busy stick
goon
got the gate
down low
going California
Gordy Howe hat trick
Grade A
grandma
grinder
grocery stick
guts of the ice
hack
half boards
half-moons
half wall/end wall/the wall
hand pass
hard (fast) ice
hash marks
hat trick/hattie/pure hat trick
helper
Herbies
high slot
high sticking
Hobey
hockey hair
hockey sense
hooking
howitzer
ice is tilted
icing
infraction
instigator
intentional offsides
in the cookie jar
jets
jill
‘juicy’ rebound
keeper
knobby
Lady Byng
laser
leaking oil
leather skater
lights the lamp
lines
linesman
lit up
lone break
long change
Lord Stanley
lost an edge
lumber
major
mask
melon/melon shot
metallurgy
middle lane
minor
move your feet!
mucker
mullet
niffty mittens
no friends
north-south
neutral zone trap
nut cup
offsides
off the post (cross bar)
one-on-one/two-on-one, etc
one-timer
onion bag
On ya!
over
overload
paddle down
patrol the blue line
Patty Kaz
penalty shot
perimeter
pinch
play the body (take the man)
playmaker
playoff beard
plumber
point(s)
point blank
pokecheck
pond hockey
post-to-post
post-to-post and in
post-to-post and out
potted
power play
pressure
protect the house
puck bunnies
puck luck
puck support
putting on the foil
pylon
race horse hockey
radius
reverse
ride him out
ring it around the boards/glass
rink rat
rink-wide pass
rocker
roofs it
rung the post (cross bar)
rush
sauce
saucer pass
screen(ed)
seal the middle
“sees the ice”
shadow(ing)
sheet
shinny
short-handed
short side
shorty
shuffle
sieve
silky
sin bin
skate save
slapper/slappah
slashing
slew-footing
sloppy
slot
snap shot
soft goal
soft hands
spin-o-rama
snipe/sniper
soft (not a tough player)
stack the pads
staple(s)
skate of shame
snow shoes (slow skater)
stickhandling
stoned
stonewall/Stonewall Jackson
stoney (no hands)
straddle (blue line)
stretch pass
stripes
“stood on her head”
support the puck
sweater
Tacks
tags (touches) up
tape-to-tape (pass)
the dots
the house
they're gonna go (fight)
thug
tic-tac-tow (play)
tie up
time and space
Titan
top cheddar/top cheese
toe drag
top shelf
tossed
tough guy
trap
Tuuk
twig
two-hander
two line pass
two pipe
umbrella
undressed
wafers
waffle/waffle board
water bottle (goal)
wheel
wheels
wing-to-wing
wrap around
wrister
yard sale
Zamboni
zebras
